Charles Joseph Beauverie Biography
Charles-Joseph Beauverie (Lyon, 17 September 1839 – Poncins, 5 March 1923) was a French painter, engraver and illustrator. In 1862 he arrived in Paris and entered the atelier of Charles Gleyre (1806-1874), also frequented by Claude Monet, Jean-Frédéric Bazille, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and other impressionists at the École des beaux-arts de Paris. In 1863 he presented a painting at the Paris Salon but it was rejected. That year remained famous for the rigor of the jury, which rejected 3000 works out of 5000, raising many protests from the artists and thus leading Napoleon III to authorize another collateral exhibition which would later become famous as the Salon des Refusés. The following year (1864) would be Beauverie's debut at the official Salon, and subsequently in 1869 with two works, a portrait of his wife and a landscape. On 26 September 1868 he married Marie-Clotilde Giraud in Villeurbanne, called Clara, seven years older than him, who with her dowry allowed him to paint for pleasure. They moved to Montmartre at 29 rue Gabrielle. In 1871, after the uprising of the Paris Commune and the clashes that caused the destruction of numerous monuments in the capital, Beauverie made various drawings of the ruins and some of these were published in the magazine L'Illustration. Four of these are today in the Carnavalet Museum. He then discovered Forez and thus created several drawings and engravings from photographs by his friend Felix Thiollier (1842-1914). Some works will be used to illustrate the book Le Forez Pittoresque et Monumental. In 1888 he moved to Poncins, purchasing a typical country house, where he painted mainly landscapes, produced his own engravings and reproduced them from works by Jean-François Millet. From 1872 to 1878 he worked for the publisher Alfred Cadart (1828-1875), creating numerous plates for L'Illustration nouvelle and L'Eau forte en.... From 1872 to 1880 he often painted in Auvers-sur-Oise where he met Charles-François Daubigny (1817-1878), a master revered by Charles, and Doctor Gachet ( 1828-1909), famous art collector portrayed by Van Gogh.
